In the restaurant industry, even small additional costs can put a hole in your wallet long term. Every good restaurant knows it can’t sacrifice quality. Smart temperature monitoring for restaurants can increase savings and quality. No one likes a mushy, watery, or separated product. When foods with high water content accidentally freeze due to incorrect holding temperatures, quality is diminished. For hot foods, they suffer in texture, flavor, and nutritional value when subjected to high heat and when reheated. One refrigeration failure, one compliance issue, or one unnoticed temperature drift can mean thousands of dollars lost overnight.
But often, these losses aren’t dramatic; they’re gradual, hidden, and preventable. Instead, restaurants can make smarter financial decisions to help them economically, while maintaining the same standard.
Below: Image of IdentiCool in a walk-in freezer measuring real product temperatures
Food Safety in Restaurants
Food safety is an integral part of being in the restaurant industry. Whether this is enforcing employee hygiene, preventing contamination, or even training, each step of incorporating food safety in the restaurant costs an extra dollar.
One of the highest costs within food safety is temperature control and monitoring. Most of these costs come from food spoilage, health code violations, or even lawsuits from unsafe food products. In some cities, there is an estimated over $400,000 USD worth of health code violations and fines. Even more dramatically, there is estimated to be over $100 billion dollars worth of food that spoils annually. But what if it didn’t have to be this way?
With smart temperature monitoring, along with real time alerting possibilities, restaurants are able to save upwards of thousands of dollars a year. It is this smart planning on the restaurant’s behalf that allows them to succeed.
Avoiding these additional costs is easy with BluLine’s temperature monitoring systems. Our systems are designed for restaurants to succeed. With BluLine, you don’t have to sacrifice quality for cost.
Above: Image of Mimic™ Stand Up logger monitoring real hot holding asset temperatures.
Digital Twin Technology
Our Digital Twin Technology allows restaurants to have smarter insights into their temperature data. Designed for both hot and cold assets, our IdentiCool™ and Mimic™ temperature sensors measure real product temperatures, not just surrounding air. Because of the thermally engineered, food-safe fluid, specifically designed to replicate your food data, restaurants are able to adjust their assets to lower energy consumption while maintaining the same level of quality.
Many restaurant managers may not realize what the 1 to 10 settings mean on the control system. Even more so, it’s hard to say how they relate to the actual internal temperature of food. But, with our Digital Twin Technology, whether the food is being kept cold or hot, you have continuous visibility with what matters most, your food temperature, not air. By having this insight into your food, you are able to gain valuable information about your food temps, while cutting costs.
Above: Image of BluNotify™ visually alerting to a safe temperature of the walk-in.
Essential Decisions in a Matter of Seconds
Using BluLine temperature sensors doesn’t just save money from energy consumption. By combining real time notifications, visual alerting, and our digital twin technology, you can make essential decisions in a matter of seconds, saving you from food waste and spoilage costs. For example, if there is a power outage outside of business hours, you are the first to know with our real-time notifications. Similarly, if the dirty condenser coils are causing a malfunction in your refrigeration unit, our BluNotify™ visual alerting system will make everyone around know there is an issue.
BluLine’s Digital Twin Technologies can help you deliver the best product quality that results in your customers coming back. By making these simple decisions to switch to a BluLine system, you can avoid paying more for poor food safety.
To learn more about how BluLine Solutions can support you throughout your entire monitoring journey, request a quote or click here to schedule a consultation!
